Well, hi there! Happy Sunday. Grab a cuppa and browse through these great reads and photos with me.
Although the evenings and mornings feel like fall, the prairies are finally getting some summer weather. Took long enough, eh? Highs around 30°C (mid 80’s F) and lots of sunshine. Perfect timing to ripen off our tomatoes… that we have loads of but have been slow to ripen in all the rain.
I just walk around enjoying the garden all day long. Watching the bees buzzing in the flowers. Morning time is especially buzzy around here.
The flowers in my garden are all a bit crazy, a bit wild in late summer. They could use some deadheading, some thinning out, but I am just letting them go. No more fussing, time to let them set seeds so that I can harvest free seeds for next year.
How does your garden grow? Are you saving seeds this year? I am all excited for it. We have had such a great garden this year… looking forward to collecting dahlia seeds, zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, calendula, snapdragons, and anything else that I can ; )
- How To Save Zinnia Seeds – The Marigold Potager – A Zone 3 Prairie Garden
- 4 Ways To Over-Winter Dahlias – The Marigold Potager – A Zone 3 Prairie Garden (how to save dahlia seeds)
Anyway… I hope that all is well with you all, that your gardens are bringing you so much joy right now. Here are this week’s great links, reads, and photos…
Gardening Inspo!
How to make a food forest – no matter the size of your yard. This same idea can be used for making berms, privacy screens, etc… out of ornamental plantings. See the article below.
This lovely garden (above) is deer resistant. It is also a ‘layered garden’, which is what the food forest is, except this is totally ornamental. Now, don’t be afraid to mix the two, eh? You can absolutely use food trees and shrubs in your layered garden instead of ornamentals.
Can planting salvia with roses help prevent black spot? Fact or myth? Ooh, I love this kind of stuff!
Ground covers to attract hummingbirds. Why did I never think of this?
How to save flower seeds. and here is another flower seed saving article.
How to save heirloom tomato seeds.
How and when to overseed your lawn.
This is awesome… Don’t spray, let bugs kill crop pests for you Central Alberta speaker says – The Albertan News. Even the farmers are trying to save the birds and bees : )
Homey Inspo!
Beautiful Painted Vintage Farm Table – French Country Cottage I had a table much like this, but smaller & lower. More like a sofa table. I loved that table but had to leave it behind in the move.
This is what I am looking at making this fall. So cute! Do you crochet? It has been about a million years since I last did, so will be a learning curve to get started once again ; )
Recipes & Foodie Inspo!
Want to try something different with your squash this year? How about ‘Summer Squash Pizza’?
Slow cooker tomato sauce. Easy and fast way to make small batches of sauce.
6 Ingredient Creamy Roasted Tomato Soup. – Half Baked Harvest
Do you have a glut of green tomatoes? Getting worried and wondering what you can do with them? This recipe for Green Tomato Chow Chow is so good! We make sure to pull green tomatoes so that we don’t miss out on making a batch of this each year.
Here is my ketchup recipe, from my old blog.
The Marigold Potager - A Zone 3 Prairie Garden 
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